[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7743-S7744]
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SA 4244. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1283. SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE COUP IN SUDAN ON
UNITED STATES SECURITY INTERESTS.
(a) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director of
National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report on the coup in Sudan on
October 25, 2021.
(2) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall
include the following:
(A) An assessment of the security implications of such coup
for United States security interests in the Horn of Africa.
(B) An identification of any country that supported such
coup.
(3) Form.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified
annex.
(b) Prohibition on Assistance.--
(1) In general.--Amounts authorized to be appropriated by
this Act, or any other Act, may not be obligated or expended
to provide assistance to the Government of Sudan until the
date on which the certification described in paragraph (2) is
made.
(2) Certification described.--The certification described
in this paragraph is a certification by the Secretary of
State to the appropriate committees of Congress that the
following criteria have been met:
(A) The Prime Minister of Sudan, other civilian members of
the Sovereign Council of Sudan, members of civil society, and
other individuals detained in connection with the coup in
Sudan on October 25, 2021, have been released from detention.
(B) Sudan has returned to constitutional rule under the
transitional constitution.
(C) The state of emergency in Sudan has been lifted,
including the full restoration of all means of communication.
(D) The military forces of Sudan, including the rapid
support forces, have been ordered to return to their
barracks.
(c) Sanctions.--The President shall immediately identify
the leaders of the coup in Sudan on October 25, 2021, their
accomplices, and foreign and United States persons that the
President determines enabled the coup for the imposition of
sanctions pursuant to applicable sanctions laws.
(d) Opposition to Support by International Financial
Institutions.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall use the
voice
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and vote of the United States in the international financial
institutions (as defined in section 1701(c) of the
International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r(c)))
to suspend all actions by those institutions related to loans
or debt relief to Sudan until the Secretary of State submits
the certification described in subsection (b)(2).
(e) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence
of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representative.
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